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Causes of death in HIV-infected women: persistent role of AIDS. The 'Mortalité 2000 & 2005' Surveys (ANRS EN19).

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BACKGROUND: Little is known about the causes of death in human immunodeficiency virus (HIV)-infected women in the era of combination antiretroviral therapy (ART). METHODS: In the French nationwide Mortalité 2000 and 2005 surveys, physicians reported causes of deaths in HIV-infected adults in 2000 and 2005, using a standardized questionnaire. We used multivariate logistic regression models to study the association between gender and AIDS-defining causes of death, adjusting for other characteristics. RESULTS: Of the 1013 HIV-infected adults who died in 2005, 247 (24%) were women. Half of women were infected through heterosexual contacts, compared with 25% men. In 2005, the proportion of AIDS-defining causes of death was higher in women than in men (43 vs 34%; P = 0.01), whereas it had been the same in 2000 (47% in women and men). In 2005, women died less frequently than men from respiratory malignancies (lung, ear/nose/throat) and cardiovascular disease (9% of all causes of death in women compared with 16% in men; P = 0.004), and suicides or accidents (4 vs 9%; P = 0.02). Socio-economic precariousness, younger age, less alcohol and tobacco consumption and lack of prior ART explained the higher proportion of deaths from AIDS in women compared with men. CONCLUSIONS: The higher proportion of AIDS-related deaths in women is probably explained by two factors: (i) some HIV-infected women, especially migrants in poor socio-economic conditions, may not have access to optimal care; and (ii) a lower prevalence of risk factors for respiratory, cardiovascular and violent deaths means that the risk of dying from non-AIDS causes may be lower in women.

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hal-00867899 , version 1 (30-09-2013)

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Mojgan Hessamfar-Bonarek, Philippe Morlat, Dominique Salmon, Patrice Cacoub, Thierry May, et al.. Causes of death in HIV-infected women: persistent role of AIDS. The 'Mortalité 2000 & 2005' Surveys (ANRS EN19).. International Journal of Epidemiology, 2010, 39 (1), pp.135-46. ⟨10.1093/ije/dyp300⟩. ⟨hal-00867899⟩
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